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ONE BAPTISM — WATER OR SPIRIT?
By Robert E. Hanna
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:13
Having
been accepted in the Beloved One, and knowing that we are members of
the Body of Christ, we are assured by our apostle (Paul) that we are "of
His flesh, and of His bones" (Ephesians 5:30). "For by ONE Spirit are
we all BAPTIZED into ONE body." Can this be water baptism? "Therefore we
are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was
raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:4). Can this be water baptism?
"One Lord, one faith, ONE BAPTISM" (Ephesians 4:5). Can the ONE baptism
by the ONE Spirit into ONE body — can this be water baptism? Surely this
was not accomplished by a humanly-ordained human minister of the gospel
in the sanctuary of a human church organization!
Paul
besought the Galatians to "Stand fast therefore in the liberty
where-with Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1). Every shackle has been struck from
our limbs. Every fetter has been loosened and cast aside. We cannot work
to obtain salvation. We cannot work to retain salvation. "Not by works
of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved
us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that
being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:5-7). Can this washing be that of
physical baptism in water?
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